Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics

Summary:

The purpose of the Offender Based Transaction Statistics
(OBTS), 1979: Hawaii was to compile, collate, analyze, publish, and
disseminate statistical information concerning the operation of the
criminal justice system at the federal, state, and local levels. This
collection includes facts on an arrested offender showing actions by
the police, prosecutor, and court. The individual offender is the unit
of analysis, and felony arrests and other related dispositions are
included.

The purpose of the Offender Based Transaction Statistics
(OBTS), 1979: Hawaii was to compile, collate, analyze, publish, and
disseminate statistical information concerning the operation of the
criminal justice system at the federal, state, and local levels. This
collection includes facts on an arrested offender showing actions by
the police, prosecutor, and court. The individual offender is the unit
of analysis, and felony arrests and other related dispositions are
included.

Guidelines for Applying for Restricted Data

Before you begin an application you will need the following information to complete the form

General Requirements:

appointment at research institution; appointment must be under the jurisdiction of the receiving institution

degree requirements (possibly doctorate)

Must be submitted:

project description

IRB approval

approved security plan

roster of research and IT staff who can access or view the data or computer where data are hosted.

confidentiality pledges for all people on roster

Some require:

CV's

A downloadable version of data for this study is available however, certain identifying information in the downloadable version may have been masked or edited to protect respondent privacy. Additional data not included in the downloadable version are available in a restricted version of this data collection. For more information about the differences between the downloadable data and the restricted data for this study, please refer to the codebook notes section of the PDF codebook. Users interested in obtaining restricted data must complete and sign a Restricted Data Use Agreement, describe the research project and data protection plan, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research.

Any public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public.
Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

For reasons of confidentiality, the actual days in the
date variables have been masked in the public release version of the
data.

Methodology

Data Source:

computerized court records

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release: 1986-04-28

Version History:

2005-08-08 The data were reprocessed with minor
changes to formatting, such as making two digit years into four
digits. A new restricted data file has been created as well as the
public data file. SAS, SPSS, and Stata collection files have been
added and the text codebook has been converted to PDF format.